Op basically was told how to dupe by a friend, did it, said oh cool and then got nailed for doing it, now can't come to terms that he should of never tried it in the first place because duping is duping no matter if you are just trying it or not.

This would be like me saying, "My friend told me if I walk into a bank with a gun they will give me all their money and so I tried it and it worked, I was like Cool! And then the cops busted me for robbing a bank, I have paid taxes for 20 years and I should of been let go with a warning. I didn't do nothing too wrong so I shouldn't be punished just because I waved a gun around and they gave the money to me."

I'm glad they busted the OP and 30,000 other dupers. Enjoy some other mmo.

I do take full responsibility for disconnecting myself out of curiosity and don't condone major exploiting.

so you do condone exploiting if its minor ?

you also admit to disconnecting yourself out of curiosity, so you knew it was an exploit to do so.
Sorry but you got your hand caught in the cookie jar. You must have known since "your a day 1 player" that blizzard do not stand for exploiting and have in the past banned people for exploiting.

Op basically was told how to dupe by a friend, did it, said oh cool and then got nailed for doing it, now can't come to terms that he should of never tried it in the first place because duping is duping no matter if you are just trying it or not.

This would be like me saying, "My friend told me if I walk into a bank with a gun they will give me all their money and so I tried it and it worked, I was like Cool! And then the cops busted me for robbing a bank, I have paid taxes for 20 years and I should of been let go with a warning. I didn't do nothing too wrong so I shouldn't be punished just because I waved a gun around and they gave the money to me."

I'm glad they busted the OP and 30,000 other dupers. Enjoy some other mmo.

Oh, I see the mod is going to be a white knight. First you have to define "Exploiting", do you agree with the ban that Ensidia got on their LK normal kill? Apparantly they exploited, but anyone with a common sense would see that was something which happened by mistake and they didn't know. This is a bug that also could happen by mistake.

In fact, people who were the trade target of the bugged herb also got banned. Did they also deserve that mister white knight?

Exploiting is already defined. Intention is irrelevant. Your attitude is rude and you seem to not understand the concept of consequences. Weather your ban well, you earned it.

Everyone that duped stuff, should have been banned.
Everyone that dc'd themselves but then got scared and didn't go any further, deserve at least a 3 day suspension and a "Yellow Card" on your account, meaning next time you're involved in such activities, it's perma ban, no if, ands or maybes.

Good for you that your ban was lifted, hopefully you and others will learn their lesson and not mess about again, you really only have yourself to blame.

Originally Posted by Gaexion

The loss of the ability to pass on loot is the loss of the ability to choose. This is communism.

Originally Posted by Aevra

It's a #$^&*@ fantasy game. You're a blue space goat riding around on flying serpents killing dragons the size of continents. And you're wondering why a gryphon doesn't look like an eagle?

You mill a stack of herbs, when loot window comes you add more herbs to the stack ur milling. Then loot the pigment. When you vendor the herb it just disconnects you. That's it. When you log back in you're rolled back, so tons of people took advantage of this bug and began exploiting to make unlimited darkmoon decks

This is a very deliberate set of circumstances. Very few people are going to add herbs to a stack after milling. I personally have auto-loot enables for all mills because there is no reason for me to sit there with a loot window open. I bet less then 1% of the people doing this did it on accident. If you know the exploit exists don't do it just because you are curious. That is not an excuse.

They are not going to take an e-mail from you over them doing internal investigation, thus why they didn't just tell you that you would get the account back. After internally figuring out you didn't exploit it progressively, they gave back the account. That's how it should work, not just showing some puppy dog eyes and saying "No I didn't!"

Keep writing them e-mails! in the end you will get in touch with someone who cares... I had trouble with blizz, 6 e-mails "thrown" aside / ignored. but nr. 7 Person to reply was helpful and nice
So after 7 e-mails i struck a nice person.

Just be persistent.

Who should I be E-Mailing? I've looked everywhere and cannot for the life of me find one for US, only EU.

Nah, I disagree with your elitist mentality.
Tier gear should be available during the leveling process. I don't want to have to mingle with these eltitist jerks in LFR to get gear as it is. I pay a sub fee, I shouldn't have to do LFR to get raid gear, much less Flex or Normal.

they probably safety-banned all the people who used the dc-trick and then took their time to check each account to see if there were any items duplicated or not.
so after they saw that you actually didnt dupe anything they simply unbanned you again.

its actually smarter to do it this way, because the longer you wait to ban those people, the more duplicated items will go into the economy.

---------- Post added 2013-01-10 at 01:14 AM ----------

Originally Posted by xenogear3

Within a week, you will buy another account and level to 90.

You are addictive to this game.

dude.. spare me with your stupid false facts... have you EVER leveled a character from 1-90 without heirlooms? its gonna at least take a month, if you're playing it casually.

and btw: "addictive" means "something that makes you addicted" the actual word you were looking for is addicted :>

I wouldn't believe any, not when it's on the "My account was closed" subject. If we start believing one, based on the evidence of one single person, who also happens to be the person who got their account closed, then realistically, it's only fair if we start believing them all. Suddenly, gullible get's removed from your dictionary, and you're giving presents to pigeons because they coo'd at you and it sounded like "please".

I'm sorry, maybe i'm a heartless bastard.. wait, i AM a heartless bastard, but all too often i hear people pull stories out of the hat exactly like this... well, at least up to the "YAY MY ACCOUNT IS OPEN AGAIN" part, which is rare to hear. It's good that they got their account reopened, but i've heard most of these "but my brother did it/a friend told me to/i wanted to test it/i'm a motherfucking ninjaturtle and i demand pizza" stories before and i just can't have sympathy for them.

Sometimes, bugs in the game cause issues where a ban is imposed. The Flame Leviathan bug for example, wasn't intended, but people exploited it to make the fight ridiculously easy. Some didn't intend to exploit it, but many of them did. Knowing what's an exploit and what isn't, isn't always clear to everyone. Knowing the difference and knowing how to make sure you don't exploit it accidentally is where the line is drawn. If you stop when you realise you've done something wrong and don't proceed to succeed, then it becomes fair to assume you didn't intend to exploit. In some cases, it's not possible to "stop" exploiting, such as with this herb DC bug. You'd expect that selling a stack of herbs to a vendor would just give you gold in return. You wouldn't expect a DC. However, you need to draw the line somewhere. If you keep abusing the bug, then you're not open to leniency. If you do it once, and then realize what's happened and don't repeat it, then it's another story. If you report it, then it's a clear sign it wasn't intended, provided you didn't proceed to keep abusing the bug.

Well I don't know this bug, but if it was something you could do in the course of normal gameplay on accident, or just caused you to DC and you weren't duping things, I think it would be fair not to ban people. When you could mail holiday items with temporary duration away, I often did that not to have them clogging my limited inventory space. When that changed and I went to clean out my bags, their timers were at 00 and it kept DCing me. So you can get Dced due to bugs innocently so they can probably check their records to see what you did before and after the DC to make sure you weren't doing anything malicious. He was unbanned so he was probably innocent of any real offense beyond finding a bug on closer inspection.